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Political Science Economic Policy

Governing the Poor

Exercises of Poverty Reduction, Practices of Global Aid

by (author) Suzan Ilcan & Anita Lacey

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2011
Category
Economic Policy
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773537972
    Publish Date
    Mar 2011
    List Price
    $110.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773538054
    Publish Date
    Mar 2011
    List Price
    $37.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773586611
    Publish Date
    Mar 2011
    List Price
    $29.95

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Every day, we are barraged by statistics, images, and emotional messages that present poverty as a problem to be quantified, managed, and solved. Global generations present the poor as a heterogeneous group and stress globalized solutions to the problem of poverty. Governing the Poor exposes the ways in which such generalized descriptions and quantifications marginalize the poor and their experiences.

About the authors

Suzan Ilcan is professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo and in the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She is co-author of Governing the Poor: Exercises of Poverty Reduction, Practices of Global Aid.

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